From Theatre to Streaming: Traces and In-Between Places of Melodrama in Fictional Narratives of the Past and Present

rastros e entre-lugares do melodrama nas narrativas ficcionais do passado e do presente

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2021.v1.36782

Abstract

This paper performs a “nocturnal flight” over the diachrony of the melodrama, visualising both certain substrates of this aesthetics identified before the 18th century and some of its forms of apprehension and transformation from the end of this period to the present day. Through the works of European, North American, and Latin American researchers who have studied the melodramatic genre/imagination/mode/structure in theatre, literature, cinema, circus, radio, and television, it aims to understand the capacity of this phenomenon to orchestrate aesthetic, identity, and emotional experiences at the heart of fictional narratives of yesterday and today — still taking it as a key to understanding contemporary structures of feeling.

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Lucas Martins Néia, Universidade de São Paulo

Lucas Martins Néia is a screenwriter, playwright, and theatre director. He holds a PhD in Communications from the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) and a BA in Performing Arts from the State University of Londrina (UEL, Brazil). He is also a workshop instructor and speaker with the Pontos MIS Program, from the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound (MIS-SP, Brazil), as well as a member of the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) and the International Network of Communication Historiographers (RIHC). His research interests include melodramatic manifestations and cultural identities, media representations, the theory and practice of screenwriting, and the history of drama in theatre, film, radio, and television.

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2022-03-06

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